Unintelligent Design

Following up on earlier conversations...

Anyone up for seeing Hancock or Kung Fu Panda at some point in the next week or two...?

"Does anybody else have an underpants situation...?"

Well, ok, Bonekickers didn't entirely win me over - but a line like that is enough to persuade me that I should probably watch next week's episode anyway. :)

The first episode of Bonekickers airs tomorrow night.

A few newspapers have written slightly mixed reviews about the first episode - generally, they seem to think that the cast is great but the plot's not quite up to the same standard.

On the other hand, it's also from the team behind Life on Mars, so I'm quite happy to give it a chance - at least for an episode or three.

Today hasn't exactly been eventful, but it's certainly been busy.

Lunch in Browns while the Godiva Carnival got underway. Bagpipes, dhols and people trying to pinch our seats (plus another opportunity to confuse poor pope_ant). It's all a little surreal, even if I should be used to it after this many years in Coventry...

This was followed by a relatively brief trip to the Godival Festival with keris, colfish and blooddoll3. Mostly, we got rained on. But there were apple whips and pies (as well as Rob handing out flyers...), so it wasn't such a bad way to spend an hour or two.

Then back to keris and davefish's place for Doctor Who. Which was... not nearly as bad as I expected from RTD. Probably the best two-parter he's written for the series. I'll let you decide whether or not this is damning with faint praise. :)
 

...how did I not know that Tom Stoppard was one of the people who wrote Brazil...?

Explains a lot.

"Always beneath the play you write is the play you meant to write; changed but not abandoned and, with luck, not betrayed, but shadowing still the play that has come to be."

-Alan Bennett

Well, that was dark...

Spotted via warren_ellis and asw909 -

Barack Obama badge, on sale at the Texas Republican state convention

Words aren't actually failing me, but I'm not finding any that are useful and appropriate.

It's been a pleasant day (and I've acquired sorrel for the herb garden), but I now have a splitting headache and my brain is simply not working. I would blame Russell T Davies for this, but Doctor Who was actually quite good...